I think I am in the minority here but I liked the original idea of the void elves.
I found it interesting that a small faction of mostly former blood elves and some high elves decided to deeply explore the void. Were warned to stop by mainstream blood elf society, ignored such warnings were banished, were altered by the void and decided to switch sides.
Yet, then some people complained that they couldn’t be high elves and that it didn’t make sense to not be allowed to play as a high elf because like the void elves, the high elves on the alliance side were according to lore a small population so if void elves that were tiny why couldn’t alliance players choose to become a high elf?
Now, I don’t have a problem with players that wanted to be high elves.
My problem is the way that blizzard gave these players what they wanted.
I think they should have done either two things.
I think blizzard should have given in allied race creation area the option for say in the elves section for players to choose to become a void or a high elf.
This way high elf players not only would be able to get what they wanted but would have also received their own unique racials.
Instead Blizzard seems to have taken a lazy route by mixing them with players who truly want to be void elves as intended.
There are so many “technical void elves” running around now that look nothing like how this new race was meant to look like making us players who really want our new bodies to reflect the void basically become a minority in our own race.
Lastly, I saw how red eyes were added now to void elves? How does this make any sense at all with the original theme that inspired this new race in the first place?
It’s a life lesson to be taught here:
Don’t disrespect your customers, they will come back to bite you. Going the extra mile to spit on the original request brought us to this situation.
gameplay answer? They gave the customization to blood elf and night elf players and a certain subset of players would’ve screamed unto the hills had void elves not gotten it too.
hand-wavey lore answer? Just assume the void elves running around with dark ranger customization are high/blood elf dark rangers who chose to return to the Alliance after the completion of the Lordaeron quests…for reasons. Much better than trying to bend your mind around the alternative, which is ‘why and how did actual void elves get turned into dark rangers?’
Here is my cute little headcanon. Void elves had blood elf family and friends who missed them so much that they were willing to swap factions to join their families again! They weren’t hard to convince. Orgrimmar smells like boiled butt.
I do not care even a tiny bit about void elf lore, and I think giving void elves more limited options to appease lore nerds is absolutely the wrong way to go; the fact that you can get your red eyes at the barber shop doesn’t make sense anyway so people should stop complaining about how void elves having access to the dark ranger cosmetic option violates the lore or whatever
You didn’t become a minority; this is what most people wanted in the first place. I was playing a void elf when you still had to do the rep grind to access them and you could only have blue skin, and I found that the skin color options bothered me way more than I initially expected them to when I changed my belf monk into a velf monk. Fortunately at some point Blizzard must’ve realized it’s bad to give Alliance players completely inferior customization options so now we merely have slightly inferior customization options, which is a huge improvement
Blizzard dug a hole for themselves. Players wanted high elves, had sensible reasons to want high elves and had more than sufficient in-game lore to justify having high elves, but were knocked back and occasionally belittled (pre nu-Blizzard’s sensitivity training) for wanting them.
Now Blizzard’s increasingly desperate for subscribers and willing to give the players what they want, but only in a way that doesn’t require them to walk back all their ridiculous comments (e.g. “there aren’t enough”, “just play Horde”, etc.).
This situation is a complete own-goal. Nu-Blizzard have essentially inherited the baggage of old-Blizzard’s egos.
Alleria, high elf void elf thing. Why there couldnt be more like her hasnt really been explained.
The red eyes doesnt mean only dark ranger either. It just means darkfallen, or undead elf and not all undead elves have red eyes. I dont see why there couldnt be a darkfallen (undead) void elf. The undead and the light dont mix well, but there have been people raised in undeath where their faith was so strong the light answered their calls, even if it did cause them pain. We dont really see that with the void though, its just void whispers dont have any impact on the undead, which is why the scourge was using saronite to gear their forces.
The original idea of the Void Elves were a spit to the face right from the time they were introduced as a playable race for the Alliance. Let me break this down to why I say this:
Nobody has even heard of Magister Umbric until the Void Elves were added back in 7.3.5.
The zone, the story, the reputation, really has no ties to the Void Elves to getting them unlocked.
There is very little lore structured around the Void Elves, and the lore that is, just centers around less than a paragraph.
There was nothing to continue on for the Void Elves in the Void Sense since Blizzard had several opportunities to expand upon for the Void Elves, but ignored them.
Well, you can blame the Blood Elf fanbase when they cried when Ion said that Blue Eyes were not for Blood Elves as they have evolved beyond that. And you can also blame a certain group of individuals for keeping the High Elf-Void Elf customization thread active when they continued to troll. The High Elf community were requesting peacefully, and it is because of a small group of individuals with the constant trolling that lead to High Elven customization on the Void Elves.
No, what Blizzard should’ve done right at the beginning was just add the original High Elves we had within the Alliance right from the beginning, and not a group of Void Elves with no real story to them.
It is clear we’re never going to see another elven group as a playable race, and that things will be going towards customizations, so there is no point requesting for the High Elves as a seperate playable race for the Alliance. Only thing I can see doing is still requesting for more customizations.
You have to thank the Anti Helf-group in pushing and supporting the group. Without their help it wouldn’t have been possible to achieve this.
Funny things of all, in some foreign groups the posts are still discussed and where the breaking point was. It is the biggest turnabout and karma moment regarding this whole ordeal and it shows that acting in bad faith will never pay off.
Yep. They left Void elves for 4 years with blue skin colors and worst of all differing shades of blue and grey hair, the most limited customizable race in the history of WoW… at least we got natural hair colors and skin colors now and the tendril toggle…i just wish we could get some hairstyles and tattoos, hair effects. I don’t know man I feel like we’re having to literally drag the effort out of them we only got copy pastes nothing new and from what Ion said it will be another couple years before other races see customization after the Dracthyr…
There wouldn’t be much of a difference if they’d actually made a High Elf AR, High Elves would simply be labeled as such and they’d presumably have different racials. True Void Elves would still be just as rare as they are now.
Blizzard went about it the way they did because a full race would have necessitated a new Horde race as well, which would have been a lot more work. Would I have prefered it if my VEs were labeled HEs? Absolutely, but it is what it is and it’s not gonna change now.
Who cares? It’s just a body shape people like. If you care about roleplay so much, you should look into downloading the TRP addon. This way, you’ll see the race the player chooses to be.
You’re fighting a losing battle if your goal is to reduce the number of customization options. Nearly everyone wants more. You’re in the minority, and your post won’t change anything.
I’m the true void elf, now. You’re the “technical void elf” because we’ve taken over, son.
It’s all about paying customers. They know that you’re already conditioned, they don’t need to win you over. You will pay and play for the rest of your life.
